Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-12-02
TALMAGE'S SERMON,
The Weekly Discourse Of the Great
Brooklyn Preacher
Subject "The Gospel of
HeaI1h.o

AOA bSAbSs IlOoJ VI lllo ptiSSdbeS VI
when announced at the opening of sermons
Immediately divide themselves into old dis
cusSons that we have heard from boyhoo1,
and the effect on us is soporific. The auditor
guesseS at the start just what the preacher
will say There are very important chapters
and verses that have never been preached
from. Much Of my lifetime | am devoting
to unlocking these gold chests and blasting
open these quarries. We talk about the
heart, and sing about the heart, but if YOU
refer to the physical organ that we call the
heart, it has not half SO much to do with
| spiritual health or disease, moral exaltation
or spiritual depression, as the organ to the
the text when he describes sin progressing
It'll dart strike through his livern
Solomons anatomical and physiological
discoveries were so very great that he was
nearly 5000 years ahead of the scientists of
his day. He, more than GOO years before
Chr ST, seemed to know about the circulation
of the blood, which Harvey discovered 1919
years after Christ for when Solomon in
Ecclesias5es, describing the human body,
speaks of the pitcher at the fountain, he evil
IDENTIFY means the three canals leading from
the heart that receive the blood like pitchers.
When he speaks in Ecclesiastes of the silver
| cord OF life, he evidently means tie spinal
marrow, about which in our day Drs Mayo
and Carpenter, and Dalton, and Flint and
| Brown-Sequard have experimental. And
! Solomon recorded in the Bible thousands of
| years before scientists discovered it, that in
his time the spinal cord relaxed in old age,
| producing the tremors of hand and head;
''Or if the silver cord be loosed.n
In the text he reveals the fact that he had
studied that largest gland Of the human sys-
tem the liver, not by tho electric light of the
| modern dissecting room, but by the dim light
| OF comparatively dark age, and yet had
seen its important function in the God-built
castle of the human body, its selecting and
| secreting power, its curious cells, its elon-
| gated branching tubes, divine workman
snip in central, AMI right, and left lobe and
| the hepatic artery through which God con-
! ducts the crimson tides Oh this vital organ
| is like the eye Of God in that it nsver sleers.
| Solomon knew OF it and had noticed either
| in vivisection or post mortem what awful at
! tacks sin and dissipation make upon it, until
with the Fat of Almighty God it bids the
! body and soul separate, and the one it COM
| mandS to th9 grave and the other it sends to
| judgment--a javsln of retribution, not
| gancing off or making slight wouni, but
| piercing it from side to side "till the dart
strike through the liver" Galen and Hippo
crates ascribe to the liver the most Of the
worlds moral depression, and the word
melancholy means black bile.
preach to you this morning the gospel Of
| health. In taking diagnosis of the diseases
of the soul you must also take the diagnoses
of the diseases of the body. AS if to recog-
nize this, one whole book of the New Testa-
ment was written by physician. Luke was
a doctor and he discources much of physical
effects and he tells OF the good Samaritan's
| medication Of the wounds by pouring in oil
and wine, and recognizes hunger as a him
drance to hearing the Gospel, so that the
i 800 were fed; and records the spare diet of
the prodigal away from home, and the extin-
| guished eyesght of the beggar by the way
| side and let's know Of thp hnT1nrrb ora pf
the wounds Of the dying Christ and the
miraculous poSt-mortem resusctation. And
any estimate Of the spiritual condition that
does not include a'so an estimate of the
physical condition is incomplete
First, let Christian people avoid the mis-
take that they are AL wrong with God be-
cause they suffer from depression Of spirits.
Many consecrated man has found his spir-
itual sky befogged, and his hope and heaven
blotted out, and himself plunged chin deep in
the Slough of Dcspond, and hiss said "My
heart is not right with God, and think Imust
have made mistake, and instead OF being q
child of light l am a child Of darkness. Nc
one can feel as gloomy as fee, and be O
Christian" And he has gone to his minister
for consolation, and he has collected Flavel's
books, and Cecirs books, and Baxter's books
and read and read and read, and prayed and
prayed and prayed and wept and wept and
wept, and groaned and groaned and groaned
NY DIOUueI, your IlOuDlS Is nOG WlCL
the heart; it is a gastric disorder or re
bellion of the liver. You need a physi
clan more than you do a clergyman. 1t is
not sin that blots out your hop9 of he ven,
but bile. 1t not only yelows your eyehall
and furs your tongue, and makes your head
ache, but swoops upon your soul in deiections
and forebodings. The devil is after YOU. HI
has failed to despoi your character, and ht
does the next best thing for him-he ruffle
your peace Of mind When he says that yol
are not forgiven SOUL when he says tina
you are not right with God, when he say!
that you will never get to heaven, he lies
You are just as sure of heaven as though vol
were there already. But Satan, finding tina
he cannol keep you out of the promised lane
of Canaan has determined that the spie
shall not bring you any Of the Eschol grape
beforehand, and that you sli Ill have nothin,
but prickly pear and crab apple. You are jus
as good now under the cloud as you were whe
you were accustomed to rise in the mornin
to pray and sing "HalIelujah, it's done.
Edward Payson, sometimes so far IL
on the mount that it seemed as if til
centripetal force of earth could no lonee
void him, sometimes through q physical dis
order was SO far down that it seemed as if tn
neither world would clutch him. Gloriou
William Cowper was as good as good cou'
be, and will be loved in the Christian churc
as long as it sings his hymn beginning
UeT6 Is u fountain lllleu WIFI
his hymn beginning: "Oh for closer wal
with God" and his hymn beginning: "Wha
varions hindrances we meet,n and his hym
beginning: "God moves in q mysteTioU
way" Yet so was he overcome OF melaI
choly, or black bile, that it was only th1 oug
the mistake of the cab driver, who took hir
to wrong place, instead OF the river banl
that he di not commit suicide.
Spiritual condition so nightly affected b
the physical statsl What great oppol
tunity this gives the Christian physician, 70
he can feel at the same time both the pulse G
the body and the pulse Of the soul, and h
can administer to both at once and if med
cine is needed he can give that, and If spirit
ual counsel is needed he can give that--a
'thly and divine prescription at the sam
time-T~nd call not only the apothecary G
} earth, but the pharmacy of heaven. Al
l. this is the kind of doctor want at my bed
side when | get sick. one that can not onl
) pour out the right number Of drops, but on
who can also pray That is the kind OF doc
tor have had in my house when sickness G
death came. | do not want any Of your pro-
, hgate or atheistic doctors around my love
, ones when the balances Of life are tren
bling. A doctor who has gone through th
medical college, AMI in dsSecting rcoI
has traverSed the wonders of the huma
mechanism, and found no God in any of th
labyrinths, is fool, and cannot doctor me c
mine. But, oh, the Christian doctors! Wha
comfort they have been in many of ou
: households. And they ought to have war;
B place in our PRAYERS, as well as praise on ou
t tongues Dear oil DR.. Skillmanl My father
= Doctor. my mother doctor, in the villag
y home. He carried al the conf1ences {
, all the families fourteen miles around
5 We all felt better as soon as we saw him eI
, 'er the house Fl face pronounced beat
{ suce before he said a word He welcome
q all of us children into life, and he closed til
old peoples eyes when they entered the la
slumber. | think / know what Christ sal
to him when the old doctor got through h
: work think he was greeted with e.